Sheet-metal candlestick



FFICE.

J. VHEELER SMITH, OF POIILTNEY, VERMONT. I

SHEET-METAL CANDLESTICK.

To all 10h-0m may concern.'

Be it known that I, J. lVi-IEELER SMITH,

` of Poultney,`in the county of Rutland and State of Vermont, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Construction of Sheet-Metal Candlesticks; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and eX- act description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making partof this specification, Figure l being a vertical section through the center of a Candlestick constructed with my improvev ment, and Fig. 2 view of the under side of the bottom thereof. v

Like letters designate corresponding parts in both figures.

The nature. of my invention consists in forming the base of a sheet metal candlestick of two sheets of different metals', which are of such proportions respectively that `the upper sheet is too thin to support the candle stick by itself, and has the requisite stiffness and strength imparted to its central portion by tting and firmly uniting thereto the undersheet, substantially in the man- `ner hereinafter set forth.

improvement, although applicable to any Candlestick, the material of which has not ordinarily sufficient thickness to insure the requisite firmness and strength; but it is especially designed for Candlesticks made of sheet brass, which, as at present constructed,` are peculiarly liable to be crushed,

`and their durability in general much lesscat-ed by the arrow ai, in F ig. 1, and the other, in the arch thereof somewhere near the position indicated by the arrow y, in

Specification of Letters Patent No. 11,389, dated July 25, 1854.

the same figure, or where force or violence l acting through the barrel thereon, exerts the greatest leverage compared with the least proportional strength of the arch. To obviate these defects, I employ a sheet metal (generally sheet iron) plate C, of sufficient sizeto reach beyond the weak portion (y,) of the arched bottom, and swage 4it so as to t centrally into the under side thereof, Isubstantially as represented. This plate is then firmly secured to the vbottom by soldering its outer edge a, thereto; and a central aperture of the size ofthe barrel of the Candlestick having been made in it,

the end e, of the barrel, is lapped over its edge together with that of the bottom A, as represented in the drawings. By thus strengthening the bottom of `a Candlestick, it can not be crushed down by any force or violence to which it is exposed, however thin the sheet of brass, (or other material,) of which it is made, may be. I am thereby enabled to use very light material and consequently make a cheaper article which at the same time is as strong and durable as can be desired. a

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

, Forming the base of a sheet metal candlestick of two sheets of different metals, which are of such proportions respectively that the upper sheet is too thin to support the candlest-ick by itself, and has the requisite stiffness and strength imparted toits central portion by fitting and firmly uniting thereto the under sheet, substantially in the manner herein set forth.

` The above specification of my new and useful improvement in the construction of sheet metal Candlesticks signed by me this seventh day of June 1854.

J. WHEELER SMITH. Witnesses:

J. S. BROWN, JOHN L. SMITH. a 

